dc.contributor.author | Silk, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Cant, MA | |
dc.contributor.author | Cafazzo, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Natoli, E | |
dc.contributor.author | McDonald, R | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-03T14:33:51Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-07-03 | |
dc.description.abstract | Dominance hierarchies are widespread in animal societies and reduce the costs of within group conflict over resources and reproduction. Variation in stability across a social hierarchy may result in asymmetries in the benefits obtained from hierarchy formation. However, variation in the stability and behavioural costs of dominance interactions with rank remain poorly understood. Previous theoretical models have predicted that the intensity of dominance interactions and aggression should increase with rank, but these models typically assume high reproductive skew, and so their generality remains untested. Here we show in a pack of free-living dogs with a sex-age graded hierarchy that the central region of the hierarchy was dominated by more unstable social relationships and associated with elevated aggression. Our results reveal unavoidable costs of ascending a dominance hierarchy, run contrary to theoretical predictions for the relationship between aggression and social rank in high skew societies, and widen our understanding of how heterogeneous benefits of hierarchy formation arise in animal societies. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 286 (1906). Published online 03 July 2019. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.2019.0536 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/M004546/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/37813 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Royal Society, The | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2019 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
dc.subject | dominance hierarchy | en_GB |
dc.subject | social network | en_GB |
dc.subject | agonistic interaction | en_GB |
dc.subject | social stability | en_GB |
dc.subject | exponential random graph model | en_GB |
dc.title | Elevated aggression is associated with uncertainty in a network of dog dominance interactions | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-03T14:33:51Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8452 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from The Royal Society via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-06-07 | |
exeter.funder | ::Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | AM | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-06-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-07-03T09:15:48Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-07-03T14:33:58Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |